Considerations for assessing maximum critical temperatures in small ectothermic animals: Insights from leaf-cutting ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ribeiro, Pedro Leite ^a   Camacho, Agustín ^a   Navas, Carlos Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; ATTA SEXDENS RUBROPIOSA; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL THERMAL MAXIMUM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEATING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UPPER CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; HEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; ATTA; ATTA SEXDENS; FORMICIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84857609222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032083     Document Type: Article

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